Imitation animal-head.



110284,6,519 PATENTED MARflz, 1907, W. STELLWAGBN.

IMITATIoN-ANIMAL HEAD. 4

PPLIOA'TION FILED MAY a, 1906.

44 `77 fof WITNESSESI i INVENTORl 4 @uw I ZJV A oRNEY No. 846,519. PATENTED MAR.12,'1907.

W. STBLLWAGEN.

-IMITATI'ON ANIMAL HEAD. APPLIOAIION PILBD uns. 190e.

2 SHEETSSHEET WITN ESSES: INVENTOR UNITED STATES WILLIAM STELLWAGEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO CHARLES W.

PATENT OFFICE.

STEVENS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMITATION ANIMAL-HEAD.

`Speci'ficaton of Letters Patent.`

Patenteaivrarch 12,1907.

To @ZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM STELLWAGEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at New York, in the county of New York and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Imitation Animal-IIeads; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full,\clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

In the manufacture of artificial animal heads for ornamentation, and particularly for attachment to the ends of boas and like,

it has been customary to make a form simulating a head or the upper part of a head from cork, which entails considerable eX- pense in the cutting, and it has also been customary to make the heads of a composition of matter similar to plaster; but this form of head is very hard, and if it accidentally strikes the wearer it is apt to bruise. These forms have been covered with fur, which is pasted on, and a pair of artificial eyes makes the imitation head complete.

My invention is designed to provide a form of this kind which is light and which also at certain points is elastic and which is cheaply made.

Another object of the invention is to provide a process for making the head which furnishes a head to which the skin can be applied by pastage or gluing, as heretofore.

A further object of the invention is to provide a means for clasping the head to the opposed end of a boa, this clasp imitating the lower jaw of an animal, if desired. This clasp is easily inserted in the head and is held therein by the pressure of the filling on the lower web of the head.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan of the device before the edges are trimmed. Fig. 2 is a section on line 2 2 in Fig. 1, and Fig.4 3 is partly an end view and partly a section on line 3 in Fig. l. Fig. 4 is a section on line 4 4 in Fig. 5, showing the clasp attached to the head; and Fig. 5 is a view of the bottom of the head with the clasp attached.

The groundwork for the head is` preferably made of two pieces which are pasted to ether by means of the anges 10, these anges being afterward trimmed off down to the edges of the head portion. The upper part of the head is formed with the bulging prominence 11, that is bent over somewhat sharply, as at 12, and is extended into the portions 13 and 14, the latter having the narrow neck portion 15 to simulate the nose portion of the head. The sharply-turned part 12 forms a brace or truss across the head, that gives it the natural hardness of the forehead; but the backwardly-eXtending portion of the bulging part 11 is somewhat flexible. Secured underneath by means of the flanges 16, which are glued to the inner ed es of the upper portion, is a sheet 17 slight y within the external periphery of the head. Therefore when a piece of fur is stretched across the bottom of the form it is only supported on the edges and has the naturally soft and yielding feeling of the throat of an animal. The chamber 18 on the inside of the head is filled with any suitable filling, as hair or the like. In the making these outer coverings are made of a fine-mesh fabric, such as buckram or the like, and is formed by means of dies over the filling material and glued together at the contacting oints, The head is then treated with a she lac or varnish in sufficient quantities to protect the glue used in the pasting from dissolving when the skins are pasted or drawn over the form, as they are usually wet or damp, and this protection is necessary.

In Fig. 4 I show a clasp attached to the head by having the lower plate 19 slid in under the filling and above the sheet 17. This plate 19 is attached at 2() to the jaw 21, this jaw having a finger-piece 22, by means of which it is opened, and the spring lss 23 holds it normally closed. The attachment of this clasp is simple and chea and it will hold its place steadily and wil not become disarranged.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim 1s- 1. A form to simulate an animals head comprising a sheet of fine-mesh fabric bent to imitate the upper portion of the head, a second piece of fabric on the bottom of the formand set within the periphery of the form to provide a recess, and a coat of stiffening material applied to the form.

2. An artic e of the kind described, comprising a form to simulate an animals head lOO having a filling of resilient material, and a sheet to form a soft throat ortion, and a flat lower sheet, and a clasp comprising a lling of resilient material wit 'n the shell.

air of pivoted jaws, one of the jaws being I In testimony that I claim the foregoing I oeated between the filling and the sheet. ave hereunto set my hand this 28th day of 5 3. A `form to simulate an animals head Maroh,1906.

comprising a shell of Ene-mesh fabric having a narrow nose portion7 a sharply-bent por- WILLIAll/I STELLWAGEN' tion to form a stiffener for the structure, and Witnesses:

this sharply-bent portion merging by a long E. A. PELL,

1o curve to the back of the head, va soft bottom WM. H. CAMFIELD. 

